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Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
They're no mere mortals, they're three of the 10 highly-qualified and esteemed experts at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) that currently sits as the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. They are Doctors Mark Crosby, Warwick McKibbin and ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Most equity market investors are concerned but not yet alarmed at Trump's protectionist policies. This could be because the financial media is calling it a trade dispute, a trade spat and not a trade war (or is it because of the markets' relatively ...

Global manager hires former Wallaby, launches unit trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
A former Australian rugby union centre is joining a UK-based equities manager as its managing director for Australia. The firm is also launching an Aussie-based global equities unit trust seeded with $130 million from an industry superannuation fund. ...

Sequoia sells direct equities business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
Sequoia Financial Group noted the sale of its direct equities business in a market update. Sequoia said it was selling Sequoia Direct as part of a "simplication of its overall operation by reducing the number of AFSLs operated within the Sequoia group." ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
More than 10,000 Australian candidates have signed up to sit the CFA exams this financial year - a jump of 36% over the previous 12 months. Last year, 7606 candidates registered for the exams held at three test centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
"In the current circumstances, members agreed that it was more likely that the next move in the cash rate would be up, rather than down." Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe declared this in many of his recent speeches, the statement was ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring ...

Asset manager awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
An Australian alternative asset manager has awarded a fund administration mandate to US firm SS&C Technologies. SS&C Technologies marked Global Merces as its first Australian client since the acquisition of DST earlier this year. The Nasdaq-listed company ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring..." - O Captain! ...

Former NAB adviser permanently banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
ASIC has permanently banned a former NAB financial adviser after it found he acted dishonestly and was not of good character. Max Kiattisak Eung, who also goes by Kiattisak Eungpongpan, has been banned by the regulator as it continues to investigate ...